New website to fill top Pittsburgh city jobs is open

A new hiring process called Talent City will help choose candidates from around the country for senior-level jobs as city department heads in Pittsburgh, and the position of police chief will undergo the most scrutiny.

Mayor-elect Bill Peduto said the website, talent-city.com, is taking applications to find candidates for various positions in his upcoming administration. He expects it will take about 6 to 9 months to fill the position of police chief.

The Pittsburgh Foundation and the University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics are leading the screening process.

Peduto said he wants his new police chief to be someone recruited from another city, instead of someone elevated as a current member of the Pittsburgh Police Bureau. He said the morale in the department is at its lowest since the days of the federal consent decree in the late 1990s.

Regina McDonald has been the acting chief since Nate Harper resigned under pressure from Mayor Luke Ravenstahl on Feb. 20, just a few weeks before Harper would be charged in a federal indictment.

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